Dines

• Dines, when not focusing his attention on Kari, occupies himself along four lines:
  • Garden: Besides the weekly lawn mowing and weed cutting, April - October, there is the joy of watching the rhododendron.
  • Reading: Thus year Dines has not read very many "serious" books, but a lot of crime stories.
    Right now he is enjoying Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World.
  • Church: The year 2010 started with the Parish Council selecting 5 from 59 applicants for one of our three positions as priest. Then we, the council, spent five very long evenings where each of these short-listed applicants gave a full "ceremony" sermon. This was followed by an hour or so of interview and then a 2-3 hour discussion. Finally we selected Kristian Tvilling. Dines has since enjoyed his sermons. The council otherwise meets once a month. Dines chairs the committee in charge of building maintenance and extensions.
  • Science: There is still "an endless number" of issues of methodology:
    how to develop large software systems in such a way that
    they fulfil customers' expectations and are correct (no blue screens).
    Dines is still exploring many of these and in various ways.
    One of these ways involves making precise mathematical models of domains such as
    • gas or oil pipe line systems,
    • stock exchanges,
    • road transport systems,
    • container line industry
    • logistics
    • window systems, web and transaction protocols etcetera.
    Out of these experiments I then write and publish more "learned" papers. This year (2010):
    • Domain Science & Engineering: From Computer Science to The Sciences of Informatics
      • Part I of II: The Engineering Part
      • Part II of II: The Science Part
    • Domains: Their Simulation, Monitoring and Control
    With colleagues Dines wrote a paper on Dansk Datamatik Center, the R&D center of which Dines was the master-mind in the 1980s.

    A lot of writing and rewriting went into lecture notes and slides for the 2010 PhD courses:

    Year	Documents	Place	Host	E-mail
    2010	Late Fall	Uppsala Univ., Sweden	Lars-Henrik Eriksson	lhe@it.uu.se
    2010	Early Fall	Eötvös Loránd Univ., Budapest, Hungary	Kozma László	kozma@ludens.elte.hu
    2010	Spring	Techn. Univ. of Vienna, Austria	Jens Knoop	knoop@complang.tuwien.ac.at
    2009	Late Fall	Univ. of Tokyo, Japan	Tetsuo Tamai	tamai@graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
    2009	Early Fall	Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland	Alan Bundy	bundy@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
    2009	Spring	Univ. of Saarland, Germany	Wolfgang J. Paul	wjp@cs.uni-sb.de
    2008	Fall	Techn.Univ. of Graz, Austria	Franz Wotawa	fwotawa@ist.tugraz.at
    2007	Fall	INRIA/Loria/Univ.Henri Poincare, Nancy, France	Dominique Méry	Dominique.Mery@loria.fr
    2006	Spring & Fall	JAIST, Kanazawa, Japan	Kokichi Futatsugi	kokichi@jaist.ac.jp
    2004-2005	Fall & Spring	National University of Singapore	Jin Song Dong	dongjs1@gmail.com

• Dines' travelling is not something he does in order to get away from here or to see new or revisit old places.
  His travelling is done in order to fulfil lecturing obligations, or to take part in science meetings.
  But then travelling is made agreeable by having Kari join him and
  either doing a spot of sightseeing, as for Ukraine, as witnessed below,
  or by drinking coffee or having plain food in old haunts, as in Vienna, Budapest or Uppsala - as also witnessed below.